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Facial expression. Facial expression is the whole showing screen of people’s mind, thought and nerve. All the pleasure, anger, anxiety, think, sorrow and fear of a person can be reflected out from the facial expression. Our faces play a key role in expressing our thought, and especially our emotions and attitudes. According to cross-cultural studies by social psychologist Paul Ekman, the facial expression is able to read people’s emotional expression clearly. Therefore, teacher should aim at the different circumstance appeared in the English teaching classroom, being good at talking and performing with the face. For example, the author has ever met two teachers who had the entirely different facial expression when having their classes. For one teacher, his students always expect to have his lessons. When he has his class, he is unlike a teacher but resembles to be an experienced excellent actor. When speaking something interesting, his facial expression seems to be pleased when speaking something sad, he will express the sadness facial expression when meeting some problem, he will frown when it has been solved, he will be exuberant. In a word, the students are deeply attracted by his vivid and perfect facial expression.

Functions of body language in English teaching

Arousing students’ interest in studying. As an old saying goes: interest is the best teacher. The teachers’ application doesn’t focus on teaching itself only; and the students can absorb better if they study their own will [5]. The intense interest in study is the prime motive power of learning activity, which can stimulate and arouse students’ interest in studying English in primary schools. Before each class, those teachers make good preparation and expect that the students can have the intense interest through a series of body language. For example, when teachers teach a sentence “What are you doing?”, teachers can design the following body language to the text content: let the students follow teacher’s body language and do warm up in the activities to enter the study condition, then it can concentrate the students’ attention and stimulate the studying interest.